Adobe on Wednesday announced availability of updates to Adobe Camera Raw 8.7.1 and DNG Converter 8.7.1, bringing additional support for cameras and lenses, while patching minor bugs found in previous versions of the software.

With the latest software updates, Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 and Photoshop CS6 users will see expanded camera support for Sony's ILCE-A7M2 camera, as well as a bug fixes dealing with a chromatic aberration issue specific to Samsung's NX1 camera. The updates will be included in an anticipated Lightroom 5.7.1 update within the next week.

Adobe did not announce what new features, if any, the upcoming Lightroom 5.7.1 update contains, though it is assumed both ACR 8.7.1 and DNG Converter 8.7.1 are to be included in the release. The company most recently issued Lightroom 5.7 in November with a tool for importing photos from Apple's soon to be discontinued iPhoto and Aperture.

Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are offered in tiers. The Creative Cloud Photography Plan is priced at $9.99 per month and includes Photoshop CC, Lightroom and access to Adobe's mobile apps suite, while Creative Cloud Complete comes in at for $49.99 per month and adds Illustrator, cloud features, access to the ProSite portfolio website, Typekit desktop and web fonts and 20 GB of cloud storage.

So far, as I still cling to Aperture, I am glad to see Camera RAW updates coming despite not actual Application specific updates. I suppose now I think about it, we always will as Photo will need them and I assume OS X centralizes the process and is application independent. I should read up on that and not guess